About Lesley Check out Lesley's Amazon Author page: www.amazon.com/author/lesleylsmith Check out her latest news! Lesley L. Smith has collected a plethora of degrees including an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Elementary Particle Physics. In 2012 she completed her MFA in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University. Lesley has published over a million words of speculative fiction. She has several popular series including The Quantum Cop Series, The Kat Cubed Series, The Space Operetta Series, The Conservation of Luck Series,The Temporal Dreams Series, The Reality Alternatives Series--featuring novels and short stories. Lesley's short science fiction has been published in several venues including "Analog Science Fiction and Fact", "Daily Science Fiction", Nano Meets Macro, and multiple anthologies. She is an active member of the Science Fiction/Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers (RMFW). She is a founder and editor of the speculative fiction ezine Electric Spec (www.electricspec.com). She enjoys blogging about writing and speculative fiction (electricspec.blogspot.com ). She has had a variety of scientific jobs including investigating quarks, dark matter, extrasolar planets, clouds, atmospheric chemistry and global warming. She has worked for a variety of research institutions including The University of Kansas, Argonne National Laboratory, the Department of Energy, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, NASA, and The University of Colorado. Lesley's nonfiction articles have been published in several venues including Journal of Climate, Climate Dynamics, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, Journal of Hydrometerology, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, Astrophysical Journal, Physical Review, and Modern Physics Letters. She is a long-time member of the The American Physical Society(APS) and The American Geophysical Union (AGU). She also enjoys giving presentations about writing, science, and speculative fiction. In October 2021 she presented "Writing Short: Focus on Short Stories" and participated in the "Together We Can: Starting or Joining A Writers Group" and "Secrets of Writing Humor" panels at the annual RMFW writers conference. In May 2018 she presented "Elementary Particle Physics for Regular People: The Basics" at the SFWA Nebula Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. Lesley was on the following panels in 2016: "The Hard Climate Data Panel," "Best Work to Seduce Someone Into Fandom," "Is Scientific/Technological Progress Accelerating or Stagnating?," "The Marching Morons: Are Americans Becoming More Scientifically Illiterate?" In 2015 she taught "Scintillating Science for Your Science Fiction" at RMFW Colorado Gold. She participated in "The Next Buggywhip", "Higgs Bosons & Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos", and "Transparency & Ethics in Scientific Research" at Mile Hi Con 44 October 2012 in Denver. Lesley lives in Boulder, Colorado with her collections of books, pets and diplomas--or was that pet diplomas?   ★   Sign up for Lesley's new email newsletter here. ★   © Lesley L. Smith 2024